Date: Mon, 24 Jan 94 15:42:12 PST From: Info-Hams Mailing List and Newsgroup Errors-To: Info-Hams-Errors@UCSD.Edu Reply-To: Info-Hams@UCSD.Edu Precedence: Bulk Subject: Info-Hams Digest V94 #71 To: Info-Hams Info-Hams Digest Mon, 24 Jan 94 Volume 94 : Issue 71 Today's Topics: 3CX1200D7 ARLB008 League at NJ hearing ARLB009 Tower victory in court Art & Millie of K6MYK CALL SIGN SERVER Daily Summary of Solar Geophysical Activity for 20 January DX Bulletin 5 ARLD005 G8BPQ 7.04a HOW TO FILE COMMENTS TO FCC NOTICES OF PROPOSED RULEMAKING RACES Bulletin #310 WANTED: CALL SIGN SERVER IN INTERNET Send Replies or notes for publication to: Send subscription requests to: Problems you can't solve otherwise to brian@ucsd.edu. Archives of past issues of the Info-Hams Digest are available (by FTP only) from UCSD.Edu in directory "mailarchives/info-hams". We trust that readers are intelligent enough to realize that all text herein consists of personal comments and does not represent the official policies or positions of any party. Your mileage may vary. So there. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 24 Jan 94 21:12:33 GMT From: news-mail-gateway@ucsd.edu Subject: 3CX1200D7 To: info-hams@ucsd.edu Is there anyone out there who has any experience with the Eimac 3CX1200D7 ? This tube is an improved design over the 3CX1200A7. The 3CX1200A7 is not recommended by EIMAC for new designs. This is due to a tendency to parasitics and is partially caused by the tube filament structure and the high feedthru capacitance. Any amplifier builders out there can comment ? KC2WE Seth Taylor---domain:taylor@tix.timeplex.com ------------------------------ Date: 20 Jan 94 14:20:22 GMT From: destroyer!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!alberta!adec23!ve6mgs!usenet@uunet.uu.net Subject: ARLB008 League at NJ hearing To: info-hams@ucsd.edu SB QST @ ARL $ARLB008 ARLB008 League at NJ hearing ZCZC AG72 QST de W1AW ARRL Bulletin 8 ARLB008 ------------------------------ Date: 20 Jan 94 14:21:09 GMT From: destroyer!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!alberta!adec23!ve6mgs!usenet@uunet.uu.net Subject: ARLB009 Tower victory in court To: info-hams@ucsd.edu SB QST @ ARL $ARLB009 ARLB009 Tower victory in court ZCZC AG73 QST de W1AW ARRL Bulletin 9 ARLB009 ------------------------------ Date: 21 Jan 94 21:38:28 GMT From: sdd.hp.com!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!news.delphi.com!BIX.com!arog@network.ucsd.edu Subject: Art & Millie of K6MYK To: info-hams@ucsd.edu I just talked with Art and Millie Gentry. Art is w6mep and I've forgotten Millie's call. These are the folks that put the first Los Angeles two-meter repater on the air in the mid.fifties and are very special folks to a lot of us that hung out there... Both are fine and only had modest damage to things... other than the kind of mess that happens when racks and such get slammed about by an earthquake. ............................................... Alan Ogden, w6spk, moderator of ham.radio on BIX arog@BIX.com ------------------------------ Date: 21 Jan 94 02:39:19 GMT From: agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!cobra.uni.edu!sunfish!charlie.usd.edu!CCHRIS@ucbvax.berkeley.edu Subject: CALL SIGN SERVER To: info-hams@ucsd.edu The one I use is in buffalo. telnet to callsign.cs.buffalo.edu 2000. Good luck.In article <199401191856.NAA24159@dialup.oar.net>, berwyn@dialup.oar.NET (George Sweigert) writes: > >Does anyone know where the call sign dtabase server exists ? > >I believe it is on DEWIE.DEL.EDU . . . does anyone know ? > >Thanks > >berwyn@oar.net > ------------------------------ Date: 21 Jan 94 04:34:58 GMT From: destroyer!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!alberta!adec23!ve6mgs!usenet@uunet.uu.net Subject: Daily Summary of Solar Geophysical Activity for 20 January To: info-hams@ucsd.edu /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ DAILY SUMMARY OF SOLAR GEOPHYSICAL ACTIVITY 20 JANUARY, 1994 /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ (Based In-Part On SESC Observational Data) SOLAR AND GEOPHYSICAL ACTIVITY INDICES FOR 20 JANUARY, 1994 ----------------------------------------------------------- !!BEGIN!! (1.0) S.T.D. Solar Geophysical Data Broadcast for DAY 020, 01/20/94 10.7 FLUX=105 90-AVG=103 SSN=054 BKI=3333 2221 BAI=010 BGND-XRAY=B1.8 FLU1=3.4E+06 FLU10=9.8E+03 PKI=3333 3232 PAI=012 BOU-DEV=025,032,037,020,013,019,017,008 DEV-AVG=021 NT SWF=00:000 XRAY-MAX= C1.0 @ 0018UT XRAY-MIN= B1.7 @ 1734UT XRAY-AVG= B3.2 NEUTN-MAX= +002% @ 1530UT NEUTN-MIN= -001% @ 1955UT NEUTN-AVG= -0.0% PCA-MAX= +0.1DB @ 1935UT PCA-MIN= -0.1DB @ 1530UT PCA-AVG= -0.0DB BOUTF-MAX=55353NT @ 0601UT BOUTF-MIN=55325NT @ 1909UT BOUTF-AVG=55341NT GOES7-MAX=P:+000NT@ 0000UT GOES7-MIN=N:+000NT@ 0000UT G7-AVG=+072,+000,+000 GOES6-MAX=P:+127NT@ 1715UT GOES6-MIN=N:-072NT@ 0529UT G6-AVG=+095,+030,-030 FLUXFCST=STD:105,105,100;SESC:105,105,100 BAI/PAI-FCST=020,020,015/015,015,018 KFCST=3333 3333 3333 3333 27DAY-AP=008,007 27DAY-KP=2123 3322 1313 2122 WARNINGS=*SWF ALERTS= !!END-DATA!! NOTE: The Effective Sunspot Number for 19 JAN 94 was 48.3. The Full Kp Indices for 19 JAN 94 are: 3+ 5- 5o 3o 4- 2o 3o 3- SYNOPSIS OF ACTIVITY -------------------- Solar activity was at very low levels. Region 7654 (N08E18) continues to be the largest and most active Region on the disk. Solar activity forecast: solar activity is expected to be at low levels with a slight potential for an M class flare from Region 7654 (N08E18). STD: Magnetic shear near the northern end of the delta within Region 7654 has remained relatively unchanged over the last 24 hours. Although there is an outside chance for another major flare from this region, nothing significant is likely to be observed unless new flux emerges to perturb the current relatively stable configuration. This is further supported by the gradually declining background x-ray levels together with the relatively low frequency of small-scale flare activity and lack of spot growth. The geomagnetic field has been at quiet to unsettled levels for the past 24 hours. Geophysical activity forecast: the geomagnetic field is expected to be at unsettled to active levels. STD: The field may become slightly disturbed on 22 January due to a negative polarity transequatorial coronal hole which is approximately one day beyond the central meridan. Periods of minor to major storming will be possible over the high and polar latitudes. Event probabilities 21 jan-23 jan Class M 10/05/05 Class X 05/01/01 Proton 01/01/01 PCAF Green Geomagnetic activity probabilities 21 jan-23 jan A. Middle Latitudes Active 40/45/15 Minor Storm 15/10/05 Major-Severe Storm 01/01/01 B. High Latitudes Active 40/40/10 Minor Storm 15/15/05 Major-Severe Storm 01/01/01 HF propagation conditions were near-normal over all regions. Subsiding levels of geomagnetic activity prompted improved conditions over the high and polar latitude paths. Conditions should continue near-normal with only intermittent minor signal degradation for transauroral night-sector circuits. Signals are expected to become increasingly disturbed on 22 January if the anticipated disturbance from the well placed coronal hole noted above arrives. Poor to occasionally very poor propagation could occassionally exist over the higher latitude paths during that period. Otherwise, conditions should continue near-normal. COPIES OF JOINT USAF/NOAA SESC SOLAR GEOPHYSICAL REPORTS ======================================================== REGIONS WITH SUNSPOTS. LOCATIONS VALID AT 20/2400Z JANUARY ---------------------------------------------------------- NMBR LOCATION LO AREA Z LL NN MAG TYPE 7652 N04E04 219 0140 CSO 03 002 BETA 7654 N09E19 204 0530 EKI 11 032 BETA-DELTA 7656 S22W36 259 PLAGE REGIONS DUE TO RETURN 21 JANUARY TO 23 JANUARY NMBR LAT LO 7647 S15 096 LISTING OF SOLAR ENERGETIC EVENTS FOR 20 JANUARY, 1994 ------------------------------------------------------ A. ENERGETIC EVENTS: BEGIN MAX END RGN LOC XRAY OP 245MHZ 10CM SWEEP NONE POSSIBLE CORONAL MASS EJECTION EVENTS FOR 20 JANUARY, 1994 ---------------------------------------------------------- BEGIN MAX END LOCATION TYPE SIZE DUR II IV NO EVENTS OBSERVED INFERRED CORONAL HOLES. LOCATIONS VALID AT 20/2400Z --------------------------------------------------- ISOLATED HOLES AND POLAR EXTENSIONS EAST SOUTH WEST NORTH CAR TYPE POL AREA OBSN 57 N20W14 S14W21 S00W25 N24W14 253 ISO NEG 005 10830A 58 N20E55 S10E41 N08E34 N34E48 189 ISO POS 014 10830A SUMMARY OF FLARE EVENTS FOR THE PREVIOUS UTC DAY ------------------------------------------------ Date Begin Max End Xray Op Region Locn 2695 MHz 8800 MHz 15.4 GHz ------ ---- ---- ---- ---- -- ------ ------ --------- --------- --------- 19 Jan: 0306 0316 0322 C4.0 SF 7654 N05E40 47 25 0449 0452 0454 C1.0 0615 0619 0623 B7.5 0629 0636 0641 B6.6 0826 0830 0833 B4.7 39 62 1141 1146 1150 C2.8 1143 1144 1152 SF 7654 N09E33 16 43 28 1335 1354 1410 C4.2 SF 7654 N05E40 2012 2016 2020 B4.5 REGION FLARE STATISTICS FOR THE PREVIOUS UTC DAY ------------------------------------------------ C M X S 1 2 3 4 Total (%) -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --- ------ Region 7654: 2 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 003 (33.3) Uncorrellated: 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 006 (66.7) Total Events: 009 optical and x-ray. EVENTS WITH SWEEPS AND/OR OPTICAL PHENOMENA FOR THE LAST UTC DAY ---------------------------------------------------------------- Date Begin Max End Xray Op Region Locn Sweeps/Optical Observations ------ ---- ---- ---- ---- -- ------ ------ --------------------------- 19 Jan: 0615 0619 0623 B7.5 III NOTES: All times are in Universal Time (UT). Characters preceding begin, max, and end times are defined as: B = Before, U = Uncertain, A = After. All times associated with x-ray flares (ex. flares which produce associated x-ray bursts) refer to the begin, max, and end times of the x-rays. Flares which are not associated with x-ray signatures use the optical observations to determine the begin, max, and end times. Acronyms used to identify sweeps and optical phenomena include: II = Type II Sweep Frequency Event III = Type III Sweep IV = Type IV Sweep V = Type V Sweep Continuum = Continuum Radio Event Loop = Loop Prominence System, Spray = Limb Spray, Surge = Bright Limb Surge, EPL = Eruptive Prominence on the Limb. ** End of Daily Report ** ------------------------------ Date: 21 Jan 94 11:26:25 GMT From: netcomsv!netcom.com!marcbg@decwrl.dec.com Subject: DX Bulletin 5 ARLD005 To: info-hams@ucsd.edu SB DX @ ARL $ARLD005 ARLD005 DX news ZCZC AE03 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 5 ARLD005 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Jan 1994 16:32:13 +0000 From: unix.sri.com!headwall.Stanford.EDU!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!demon!dis.demon.co.uk!llondel.demon.co.uk!dave@hplabs.hp.com Subject: G8BPQ 7.04a To: info-hams@ucsd.edu In article Angelo_Glorioso_Iii@agwbbs.new-orleans.LA.US (Angelo Glorioso Iii) writes: >Hi All, > > I dont have access to archie, so I must ask for help.. I heard that G8BPQ >407A has been released.. Anyone know what ftp site has it??? > >Thanks in advance.. > >Angelo > By the time you read this, BPQ 4.07a (not what the subject said!) should be available on ftp.demon.co.uk:/pub/ham If it isn't there, try a bit later (depends on when the sys admin moves it from the upload directory). Dave -- ***************************************************************************** * G4WRW @ GB7WRW.#41.GBR.EU AX25 * Start at the beginning. Go on * * dave@llondel.demon.co.uk Internet * until the end. Then stop. * * g4wrw@g4wrw.ampr.org Amprnet * (the king to the white rabbit) * ***************************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: 21 Jan 94 11:25:17 GMT From: netcomsv!netcom.com!marcbg@decwrl.dec.com Subject: HOW TO FILE COMMENTS TO FCC NOTICES OF PROPOSED RULEMAKING To: info-hams@ucsd.edu HOW TO FILE COMMENTS TO FCC NOTICES OF PROPOSED RULEMAKING If you plan to file comments to an FCC Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, use the caption format shown below making sure that you put the appropriate Docket number at the top. When you file comments or reply comments with the FCC, list your credentials, be fact-specific and to the point. When you file comments to an active NPRM, the FCC wants you to send an original and four copies. If you want each FCC Commissioner to have a copy, send an original plus nine copies. Send all comments and reply comments to: Secretary FCC Washington, DC 20554 Caption to be used in filing formal comments: Before the FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Washington, DC 20554 In the matter of ) ) (Insert a brief ) PR Docket 93-### description of ) what you are ) commenting on) ) Details can be found in Chapter 15 of The FCC Rule Book. ARRL HQ and your ARRL Director would appreciate a courtesy copy of your comments and reply comments. See page 8 of any QST for his or her address. John Hennessee, KJ4KB Regulatory Information Specialist American Radio Relay League 225 Main St Newington CT 06111 203-666-1541 Internet: jhenness@arrl.org -- Marc B. Grant 214-231-3998 marcbg@netcom.com Amateur Radio N5MEI marcbg@esy.com Richardson, TX ------------------------------ Date: 24 Jan 94 21:39:54 GMT From: news-mail-gateway@ucsd.edu Subject: RACES Bulletin #310 To: info-hams@ucsd.edu Bid : $RACESBUL.310 Subject : RB 310 Training 3/3 From: W6WWW@KD6XZ.#NOCAL.CA.USA.NOAM To : RACES@ALLUS TO: ALL ES, CD, AND PUBLIC SAFETY DIRECTORS VIA AMATEUR RADIO INFO: ALL RACES OPERATORS IN CALIFORNIA INFO: ALL AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS FROM: CA STATE OFFICE OF EMERGENCY SERVICES (W6SIG@WA6NWE.CA) 2800 MEADOWVIEW RD., SACRAMENTO, CA 95832 916-262-1600 LANDLINE BBS OPEN TO ALL 916-262-1657 RACESBUL.310 RELEASE DATE: January 24, 1993 SUBJECT: TNG - Training for RACES people - Part 3/3 23. Non-commercial events supporting governmental approved charitable organizations that qualify within the guideline of the government department responsible for such activities. 24. General public service communications: a. Information and assistance communications during local unusual environmental conditions when RACES communications is not required. b. Radio relay communications in support of distant disasters. 25. Mutual aid communications; i.e., how and when personnel and equipment may be used to support another government's incident. 26. Mobilization and authority to be on duty. Personnel are not self dispached. Record keeping requirements, showing name, ID number or callsign, date/time on duty, date/time off duty, etc. 27. Organizational assignments, Delegate responsibilities, Staff in depth. Assign work, create work, and see that the work accomplished. Make expectations known. The RACES unit should be an on-going activity and not just another "dire emergency resource". EOM Station of Origin W6WWW @ KD6XZ.#NOCAL.USA ------------------------------ Date: 21 Jan 1994 23:07:04 GMT From: noc.near.net!news.delphi.com!jtriolo@uunet.uu.net Subject: WANTED: CALL SIGN SERVER IN INTERNET To: info-hams@ucsd.edu >I am looking for a call sign server a-la buckmaster >accessible on line through the internet... >i thought that there was one in buffalo??? There are two: mudgate.imsa.edu 2000 plan9.njit.edu 2000 The first one tends to be a little more current, but they are both set up the same way. If you're calling from Delphi, there should be a way to get right into one of the servers. Before the rebuilt some of the menus, there was an auto-telnet for it. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jason D. Triolo -- Colonial Heights, VA | ---------------------- Amateur Radio: KD4ACG | This space for rent. Internet : JTRIOLO@delphi.com | Call today! Fidonet : 1:264/219.1 | ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: (null) From: (null) SB QST ARL ARLB009 ARLB009 Tower victory in court Tower victory in court A federal appeals court in Minnesota has found in favor of an amateur and against a local municipality, the latest round in a three-year battle. Sylvia Pentel, N0MRW, applied in January 1991 for a zoning variance for a 68-foot crank-up tower from the city of Mendota Heights. At the time, she was using a roof-mounted vertical which, she was unaware, violated the city's zoning rules. The city denied her application for a tower but granted a special-use permit to allow her to keep the vertical. Pentel sued the city in US district court, saying that its ordinance was preempted by federal law PRB-1, which recognizes the needs of both municipalities and amateurs, and which requires a ''reasonable accommodation'' of the needs of amateurs. The district court found in favor of the city, and Pentel appealed. The US Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit said that the FCC in PRB-1 ''was attempting to strike a balance'' between the interests of municipalities and amateurs, and exhorted the parties to the suit to work together to ''arrive at a satisfactory solution.'' The court of appeals said that its decision does not mean that the city must necessarily grant Pentel's application for a tower as it stands, but rather that the city must make a reasonable accommodation for her interests. The court said that granting a special-use permit for Pentel's vertical was not an accommodation. Pentel's lawyer was John B. Bellows Jr, K0QBE, with assistance from ARRL General Counsel Christopher Imlay, N3AKD. NNNN /EX ------------------------------ Date: (null) From: (null) -- Marc B. Grant 214-231-3998 marcbg@netcom.com Amateur Radio N5MEI marcbg@esy.com Richardson, TX ------------------------------ Date: (null) From: (null) SB QST ARL ARLB008 ARLB008 League at NJ hearing League at NJ hearing At a public hearing on January 11, ARRL officials told the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and Energy that a state proposal to register and impose fees on rf sources was contrary to federal law as related to radio amateurs. The New Jersey proposal, released last month, exempted Amateur Radio stations but left a door open for future regulation of amateurs. ARRL General Counsel Chris Imlay, N3AKD, and Northern New Jersey Section Manager Rich Moseson, NW2L, both spoke at the hearing on behalf of the more than 5,000 ARRL members in New Jersey. The League representatives argued that only the FCC had the power to license and regulate radio transmitters, and that applying the proposed regulations to amateurs would effectively preclude Amateur Radio communications in New Jersey. A number of other ARRL officials and interested amateurs also were present at the hearing, and a specific exemption was requested for radio amateurs. The NJ DEPE has extended the deadline for comments on the proposal until February 22. More information is in February QST. NNNN /EX ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 14:13:42 GMT From: netcomsv!netcom.com!greg@decwrl.dec.com To: info-hams@ucsd.edu References , , <2ht226$a0s@unbc.edu>g Subject : Re: Ramsey FX Transceivers In article <2ht226$a0s@unbc.edu> lyndon@unbc.edu (Lyndon Nerenberg) writes: >greg@netcom.com (Greg Bullough) writes: >>I suspect someone receiving a >>Notice of Apparent Liability from the FCC would not consider it >>to be trivial. > >Aren't US hams required to learn the reg's prior to obtaining their ticket? Of course. They are also required to own a spectrum analyzer, or to know where to get access to one. And how to use it. And of course, our no-code techs understand clearly that they can't trust a manufacturer to produce a design that won't get them in trouble. Gee, Lyndon, I'm overwhelmed by your sympathy for a kid who sees an inexpensive VHF/UHF rig and puts it on the air. Greg ------------------------------ End of Info-Hams Digest V94 #71 ******************************